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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1894
Page
8
Domestic fowl feathers yield decorative fans. The first uses white tail or wing feathers dyed rosy, with slim gilded sticks and a pink ribbon. A spray of oil painted flowers decorates the design, joined by silk thread. A child’s fan features graduated feather lengths and a ribbon loop.
Households are advised on wound care, ink marking, leather care, sealing corks, lemon water for rice, stovepipe maintenance, a chocolate lemonade drink, and fainting first aid. The Persian lady is described as living simply, eating with fingers, and maintaining hygiene through frequent ablutions.
A hair dyer proposes a rapid bleaching method using a chair like a dentist’s, a metal plate as the negative electrode, and a gilded brush as the positive electrode. The process claims natural looking color, adjustable shade, and even reddened lips via Faradic current, attracting crowds of wealthy curiosities to the showroom.
The prince of Wales seeks to quash revived talk of his father's marriage to Mrs. Pitzherbert. The Times notes such unions would be illegal, recounts the 1772 royal marriage act, and describes a christening coverlet gifted for the newest royal infant.
The piece notes Prince of Wales fondness for Robinson Crusoe and Ruskin’s youth favorite Arabian Nights. It mentions T D Sullivan visiting with Irish questions tours, Anou n Aziz consulting his mother, and Vez conspiracy pardons. Jean Richepin is described vividly and Gladstone’s fete anecdotes are recounted with humorous royal commissions and axes on display.
A shuffled set of brief notices mentions M Exim Zola planning to depart Paris for Spain to study for a new book, Baron Surprirr-Courts guarding a premier copy of Shakespeare’s first folio, Mrs Anex and Mrs Alexander Hector described as weathered veterans, and the Dahoman King Dehanzin languishing in exile at Martinique. It notes Sopurm A Norpuorr’s appointment at Munich clinic, Bret Harte’s aging look, Prince Bismarck's champagne habit for gas benefit, and artist Andreas Zoux praising Mrs Potter Palmer and Mrs Grover Cleveland as ideal women.
Practical household tips cover making gum mucilage from gum Arabic and gum tragacanth, shelving ideas to remove cutlery clatter, borax to deter vermin, removing ink stains with boiling water, drying damp feathers, handling sharp ingested substances with potatoes, and special washing days for blankets and counterpanes.
Rupyarp Kirina was jilted by six London girls before winning his American wife. Joux Jacon Aston chafes at a Londoner’s question about translating his novel. R. Crockett recalls starting with unread poetry. Neighbors of Lord Tennyson praise him as a great poet. Emerson is quoted on lecturing for fame and expenses. Alruoxse Dauph nears completion of La Soutien de Famille about a Russian student in Paris, and La Petite Paroisse awaits serial publication. The Prince of Wales owns a mummified hand of one of Pharaoh’s daughters as a curio. Hood’s Sarsaparilla boasts the largest sale among medicines.
A collage of romantic verse and light verse from Chicago papers features Abred Ellison on love and reunion, a December song urging optimism, Harper's Young To My Gift, and Nixon Waterman’s reflections on impermanence. The piece blends lyric excerpts with humorous family imagery and a closing line on shifting life and pockets.
Fra Barroombo was Raphael’s intimate friend and may have finished many sketches by him. Gainsborough’s painting technique is rarely surpassed and his works seldom crack. Zamfiers, son of a shoemaker, was considered the ugliest man of his era. Masaccio was born Maso. the added name mocked his dress. Orcaena’s Last Judgment in Pisa’s Campo Santo was once deemed the world’s greatest picture. Porpone’s saints show great muscular detail. Tirronerro, known as Tintoretto, was the son of a dyer. Tisto’s best work came after sixty. he lost an eye yet kept precision until blindness.
Vanderbilt paid 75000 for Rosa Bonheur The Horse Fair now at the Metropolitan Museum. The artist received 5000. Turboweger duchess of Montrose plans to sell her art including Reynolds Gainsborough Hoyt works and Leighton pieces. Federico Madrazo once Madrid Royal Gallery rector died in Madrid born Rome near Waterloo. Mrs Lenano Stanthorpe considers converting her Francisco residence into a public art museum. The house is large with suitable lower rooms for gallery use.
A collage of light humor from various sources quotes children and adults in witty exchanges. Jokes touch on allowances, kings, and income tax, with bits from Harper's Young People Tit Bits and Fliegende Blatter.
The article notes a trend of visitors paying more heed to eating and drinking than dancing. It mentions Huncany planning a millennial relic exhibition to mark Arpad founding the kingdom in 894 and reports Africa mahogany logs sold in London, claimed largest ever landed in England, plus Lisurpen’s boggy decline and draining efforts failing.
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